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This study group will provide an opportunity for participants to practice and grow their photographic skills. It will consist of visits to notable, hi ...  View More

If you enjoy classical music or the pops, you’ll love the experience of All That Jazz. The study group will explore jazz history, composers, arrangers ...  View More

President Eisenhower in September 1953 appointed Earl Warren, a three-term governor of California as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. ...  View More

Three men, three countries, three cousins, two grandsons and one grandson-in-law of Queen Victoria. In the years leading up to World War I these men s ...  View More

In Heirs of the Founders (Doubleday, 2018), noted historian H. W. Brands gives us the parallel biographies of the three giants of the second generatio ...  View More

Great reads generate great movies, and, in combination, they generate great discussions. Join us as we explore a world where everything and everybody ...  View More

Great book discussions encourage participants to engage in the exchange of ideas that should form the basis of civil discourse in a democratic society ...  View More

Plato said, “Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.” Do you enjoy reading or listening to poetry? Do you feel as though a poem elicits some ...  View More

In 1955 French critics referred to the grim fatalistic crime movies in the U.S. after WWII as “film noir” or dark films. But at the same time, the Ger ...  View More

In mid-1934, the Hollywood Production Code started to be enforced following a short period from 1930 to 1934 when the studios were allowed virtually u ...  View More

What is racial equity? Can it be achieved in an integrated school environment? Find out how Oak Park/River Forest High School has struggled with this ...  View More

Inside its famous covers and beyond the cartoons, The New Yorker magazine is dedicated to quality, topical writings and ideas. Our peer-led group disc ...  View More